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Charleton eclectic

history of science
Rupert Baker
04 April 2022
5 mins

An early Fellow of the Royal Society wrote about stone circles, the human soul, natural history and scurvy, as well as penning a gushing tribute to King Charles II. Rupert Baker provides an introduction.

Louisiane Ferlier
08 July 2019
3 mins

We present a digital version of what is arguably the Royal Society’s most important single historical document.

Restoration reading

history of science
Dr Felicity Henderson
04 April 2013
5 mins

Felicity Henderson admires Robert Hooke's 'Micrographia' (1665), praised by Samuel Pepys as 'the most ingenious book that ever I read in my life'.